Election 2017 - Party Policies - Education
27th May 17, 9:50am
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- ACT is committing $1 billion a year more funding for education.
- To be eligible schools need to opt out of the centralised payroll system and collective agreements. Schools that opt in will be funded at $93,000 a teacher. However, as schools are free to allocate the teaching grant how they want, the best teachers will be able to earn substantially more than this.
- Principals will then decide how much to pay individual teachers out of their teaching grant. These schools will be under no requirement to use the collective salary scales.
- On average we will increase teacher salaries by $17,700 per teacher. This will enable the best teachers to stay in the classroom, and elevate teaching as a profession.
- We will enable schools to opt out of union contracts. Schools will be able to pay more to attract teachers to fill specialist skills shortages.
- Read more here and here.
- Increase education funding by $315 million to build a more inclusive education system.
- Properly fund a full-time Children's Champion for every 400 children to coordinate support for children with high needs (SENCO), costing $70 million over three years.
- Create a $5 million annual School Camp fund to support students with additional learning needs to attend camps and other activities that should be enjoyed by all kids.
- Double funding for the Ongoing Resourcing Scheme (ORS) and the Early Intervention Service (EIS) to increase the students who can access these services, at an additional cost of $215 million over three years.
- Ensure every child can be included at their local school, by strengthening the child rights provisions in the Education Act.
- Read more here, here and here.
- Invest an extra $4b over four years to deliver a modern education system. This funding includes $1.8b to deliver more teachers, better professional development, more learning resources, and help the sector meet the rising costs they face each year.
- Breaking down the barriers to participation at all levels, with a particular focus on breaking down financial barriers by returning to the principle of a free public education that is available to all New Zealanders throughout their lives.
- Focusing on learning that is relevant to the lives that New Zealanders are living today, the technology they will interact with, and the types of skills that will provide them with the opportunities to thrive in all aspects of their lives.
- Create new measures for recruiting, training, and supporting the best teachers; and provide professional development for teachers in technology.
- As part of our policy to restore Adult Community Education, ensure that support is provided for community based programmes for people to learn an array of languages.
- Read more here, here, and here.
- Increase overall funding for Māori medium education. The Māori Party wants mainstream classrooms to speak the language of our tupuna, to include Māori ways of knowing in the curriculum and to hold our tupuna up as role models of academic excellence.
- Introduce a range of amendments and regulations to better support student achievement, student representation and cultivate an environment that supports lifelong learning.
- Partner with iwi and employers to provide more scholarship and internship opportunities for whānau and to provide better connections for students to their tribal identity, culture and language.
- Introduce a range of amendments and regulations to better support student achievement, student representation and cultivate an environment that supports lifelong learning.
- Read more here.
- Investing a record $10.8 billion a year into early childhood, primary, and secondary school education.
- National is further lifting achievement in schools though our $359 million initiative to improve teaching quality and school leadership.
- $3 million package to help increase teacher numbers, with a focus on Auckland.
- $379 million to provide school students with stronger maths, technology and languages skills, as well as updating National Standards.
- $45 million to revamp National Standards so children, parents and teachers can track their progress throughout the year in key learning areas.
- Read more here, here, here, and here.
- Work with the sector to re-establish curriculum and school support advisors.
- Nationwide professional learning and development to support our teachers and ensure quality curriculum delivery which meets the needs of all students.
- Ensure the education sector can elect its own representatives to sit on the Education Council.
- Immediately review the effects of the centralisation of truancy contracts on school communities with the view to better meet local need.
- Create a consistent and required professional development and training programme for Boards of Trustees.
- Read more here.
- Review National Standards to ensure that they are achieving best outcomes for children and work with teachers, parents and Ministry of Education to streamline (or remove).
- Improve the provision of professional development for school teachers and leaders; and fund a base level of Support Staff salaries separately from schools’ general Operations Grant.
- Provide funding for schools to provide technology for students, with immediate goal of one device between four students and aim to reduce ratio over time; and review funding available for IT initiatives and training for teachers.
- Introduce compulsory and comprehensive civics education from years 1-13, including information about elections, our electoral system, parliament, central and local government, courts, the Head of State and other institutions.
- Ensure that every effort is made to ensure that all young people are enrolled to vote (when able to do so), by coordinating with schools.
- Read more here, here, here.
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